Rivada Networks Continues to Respond to FirstNet RFP’s
It looks like Rivada Networks is still in the race to provide an alternative solution to the FirstNet Mission Critical and Public Safety LTE network.
The company continues to respond to several US states that issue RFPs in order to receive more input from vendors willing to build and maintain a statewide public safety LTE network that is interoperable with FirstNet. With this, Rivada makes use of the the law that says; states must be given the option to opt out.
Rivada CEO Declan Ganley, in an interview, said that he is afraid that, again, it looks like there is an attempt to create a new so called ‘stove pipe’, were public safety agencies will move away from a current Motorola ‘stove pipe’ and into an AT&T ‘stove pipe’. He said that this is not in sync of what Congress wanted to achieve.
Luckily for Rivada, there is a act that provides every governor 90 days from the time FirstNet provides the state with its final state plan to decide whether to opt out of the NPSB Network.
Until now, a number of states have issued these RFPs, including; Colorado, Michigan, Arizona, Alabama, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire to develop an alternative plan.
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